DER­RICK RUT­LEDGE’S SE­CRET WEAPONS

PRETTY POW­ER­FUL WOMEN CALL THIS MAKEUP ARTIST FOR A FLAW­LESS FACE

YOU KNOW YOU’VE MADE IT when you’re jug­gling calls from Oprah Win­frey and Michelle Obama. “Ms. Win­frey saw the Time mag­a­zine cover I did with the First Lady [right, in 2009] and wanted to work to­gether,” Rut­ledge says. He be­gan split­ting his time between the two un­til the Oba­mas left the White House; now he’s a con­stant by Win­frey’s side, col­lab­o­rat­ing on looks for photo shoots, red car­pets, and, re­cently, her role as mys­ti­cal time trav­eler Mrs. Which in A Wrin­kle in Time. When he saw his elab­o­rate glit­ter-and-rhine­stone makeup on the big screen, he gasped. “It’s been a long jour­ney,” Rut­ledge says of his ca­reer. “But it’s the trust I’ve built with my clients that’s got­ten me here to­day.”

Rut­ledge uses three or four shades of foun­da­tion on dif­fer­ent parts of the face to create seam­less con­tours. Koh Gen Do Maifan­shi Mois­ture Foun­da­tion in 123, 301, and 303, $70 each; ko­hgendo cos­met­ics.com.